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"A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity."
"The first myth of management is that it exists."
"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."
"When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities."
"Good managements produce a good average market price, and bad managements produce bad market prices."
"Time is a perishable commodity."
"And knowledge management is a means, not an end."
"Ridcully was to management what King Herod was to the Bethlehem Playgroup Association."
"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim."
"Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead."
"All battles are won before they start."
"I ended up meeting my manager because my sister was a receptionist at a management company. My manager is actually my same manager that I have today. That's how it started. I worked my way."
"I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants"
"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."
"There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgment as doth anger"
"A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive."
"Time is the moving imago of the unmoving eternity."
"In the old systems, hierarchies emanate power from above to below through forms of line management and are ideologically supported by cosmologies and theologies featuring celestial rulers and their deputies - the 'rule of the best.'"
"Time is the measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after."
"If you don't know the Jewelry, know the Jeweller"
